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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Pueblo, CO

June 9, 2001Bent County, Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2001, 7:05 PM MDT for Bent County, Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 2001, 7:05 PM MDT (01:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2001, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Bent County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 187 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 63 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -245 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3205 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KPUB 100105
SVRPUB
COC011-061-099-100200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
705 PM MDT SAT JUN 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BENT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO
  PROWERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO

* UNTIL 800 PM MDT

* AT 701 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE 
  OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM EADS IN CENTRAL KIOWA 
  COUNTY...THROUGH HASTY IN BENT COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WILL BE...  
  LAMAR BY 730 PM 
  OPEN COUNTRY OF KIOWA...BENT...PROWERS COUNTIES THROUGH 800 PM
  HIGHWAY 50 IN BENT AND PROWERS COUNTIES THROUGH 800 PM

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS ALSO OCCURRING. IF CAUGHT OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY
FROM WATER...METAL OBJECTS...AND ISOLATED TALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES.
IF INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING THE
TELEPHONE UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. IF POSSIBLE...UNPLUG ANY
UNNECESSARY APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM HITS.

DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY. GET INDOORS AND IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY 
FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT CAN OFFER THE BEST PROTECTION.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN PUEBLO.

LAT...LON 3860 10314 3766 10337 3766 10213 3861 10209

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 9:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	40 min
Jun 10, 3:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Colorado, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.